Regina's Song

Rating:
Summary: Terrible! Predictable! Inane!
Review: the idea behind this book is very interesting, however, Eddings has to bog it down with his "clever" dialogue. THere are characters who serve no function in the book than to allow themain character to showoff his witty banter. Which isn't as witty as it is annoying. All the characters use the same expressions and add "ie" to everything, like bugsies and normies etc. which doesnt reflect the dialouge of today in any way shape or form even tho it has a modern setting. Also, the living arrangments Mark finds himself in, just doesn't exsist. No busy college women would cook and clean a house for men, they would either hire someone to do it or expect everyone to clean up after themselves. This out of date sterotyping was extremely annoying and hard to believe. I doubt that this book would have been published had the famous Eddings' had not been the authors.

Rating:
Summary: Terrible Terrible Terrible
Review: David and Leah Eddings did an awesome job on this book. At the beginning it sort of drags but later teh action starts to get going and then you can never put it down until you are done. It was a very well plotted and thought out book. The end had an interesting twist which shocked me in some ways. It kept me gussing until the end. It's a far cry for Belgariad and Mallorean and his other series, but this is a great book unto itself.

Rating:
Summary: Not a fantasy, but still a good read
Review: This is so NOT a fantasy, but a darned good mystery & psychological drama, so if you want magic and dragons, put this one down. An interesting look into the world of identical twins. Yeah yeah...you know who done it, but the mystery is will the murderer get away with it? As in the Belgariad & Mallorean, part of the charm of the book is the rapport between the characters. I almost didn't pick it up because I haven't cared for the other Eddings' non-fantasy titles, but I'm glad I gave this one a chance. It was a fast read and a good escape.